Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is one of the earliest terrorist organizations in the United States, which exists in 1866. It mainly preaches the racism of white supremacy, persecuting blacks, Jews and orientals through lynching, kidnapping and mass killing.
2. Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley is probably the most important figure in American pop music in the 20th century. Although he is not necessarily the best, it is indisputable that he made rock music popular all over the world. From the sales of his records, we can see that his influence is extraordinary. During the 20 years from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, his international best-selling songs were one after another, and even after his death, any reprints of his songs maintained extremely stable sales. He is the third best-selling artist in the history of pop music. His controversial sexy stage image has laid the visual standard for this kind of music.
3. Little Rock Incident
Little Rock incident did not appear in Forrest Gump's story.
4. The incident of black admission to the University of Alabama
1957 In September, the District Court of Little Rock, Arkansas, announced that according to the decision of the Supreme Court 1954 to abolish racial segregation in public schools, the city's public central middle school accepted nine black students. White racists strongly opposed the decision. On September 2, Forbes, the governor of the state, sent a national guard to prevent black students from entering the school in the name of "riot prevention", but failed. On the 23rd, with the connivance of the governor, thousands of racists surrounded the school, beat black journalists and drove away eight black students. Then there were attacks on blacks in several southern States. The Little Rock incident shocked the whole world, and the Eisenhower administration was forced to send more than 1000 paratroopers to Little Rock on 24th to "protect" blacks from entering schools. With the intervention of the government, the local authorities announced the abolition of racial segregation in public schools.
4.john f. kennedy
As president, Kennedy pursued his "new frontier" policy in American politics. During his administration, he put forward many plans, including improving urban housing conditions, developing education, providing good medical care for the elderly and opposing racial discrimination. When he was in power, the international political arena was changing, and a lot of troubles such as the Cuban missile crisis and the Berlin crisis haunted him. However, Kennedy did not back down, which brought great hope and courage to go forward regardless of everything to the high-spirited American nation.
19 17 was born in Boston, Massachusetts in May.
1943 served as a second lieutenant and participated in the second world war.
1952 running for congress in Boston.
1956 was appointed vice president as a democratic candidate.
1958 entered the Senate.
1960165438+10 served as the 35th president of the United States in October.
1963165438+1On October 22nd, he was assassinated.
5. Playboy school uniform incident
There seems to be such a thing in history, but the protagonist is not Jenny.
6. Vietnam War
Vietnam War is the longest war in the 20th century. From the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s, in nearly 30 years, Vietnam's patriotic armed forces defeated two powerful capitalist industrial powers, France and the United States, with crude weapons, which not only created miracles in the history of war, but also showed scenes of wonders in the history of war with their national sacrifice spirit.
Screenshot of 7 movies in Vietnam. President Johnson
Lyndon baines johnson (1908.8.27—1973.1.22) is the 42nd and 36th presidents of the United States, born in Texas, the eldest son of five children of his father Samuel and his mother Rebecca. Father is a state senator. Johnson has been engaged in various occupations since he graduated from Southwest Normal University. 1948 was elected senator, 195 1 became the leader of the democratic party. 1960 was nominated as the Democratic presidential candidate and won the election. 1963165438+1October 12. Kennedy was assassinated and Johnson succeeded as president. After he succeeded to the throne, he proposed legislation on human rights, tax reduction, anti-poverty and resource protection, which was passed. 1964 was re-elected. He put forward the slogan of building a "great society", introduced some practical measures and achieved some results. But he followed the policy of the previous government and expanded the Indo-zhina War. 1965, sending troops to intervene in the Dominican Republic. In particular, the expansion of the Indian-zhina War met with strong opposition from the American people. In order to get out of trouble, Johnson had to negotiate with Indian zhina to end the war. After the expiration of his term, Johnson stopped running for president. After retirement, he lived on a farm in Texas. The day after his death, the Vietnam Armistice Agreement was signed in Paris.
8. Washington anti-war rally
320,000 Americans held a March against the Vietnam War in Washington.
9. Apollo landed on the moon
1969 On the evening of July 20th, US Eastern Time 10: 56, Armstrong entered history. First, he landed on the surface of the moon on the Kitty Hawk lunar lander, avoiding the icy gravel of the moon and landing smoothly in the quiet sand sea. He stretched out his left foot in boots from the bottom of the cabin ladder and set foot on the first human footprint on the moon. This is a shoe print about one-eighth of an inch deep, which will remain on the moon for 500 thousand years. Then Armstrong said the words that were doomed to immortality. "This is one small step for individuals, but one giant step for mankind."
10. ping-pong diplomacy
Since the late 1960s, China and the United States, which have been hostile for a long time, began to explore and secretly contact with each other in order to improve and ease relations. With the approval of President Mao Zedong, the China Table Tennis Team, which is participating in the 3 1 World Table Tennis Championships, sent an invitation to the American Table Tennis Team to visit China on April 6th.
1971April 10, the American table tennis delegation and a small group of American journalists became 1949, the first batch of Americans allowed to enter the territory of new China. On April 14, Zhou Enlai, Prime Minister of the State Council, China, met with members of the American table tennis team in the Great Hall of the People and said to them, "You have opened a new chapter in the relations between the Chinese and American peoples. I believe that this new beginning of our friendship will be supported by most people in our two countries. "
1 1. John Lennon
John Lennon, the father of rock and roll. The Beatles was a symbol of the sixties and seventies. They symbolize fanaticism, pioneer and sensitivity, as well as drug abuse and indulgence. But it is indisputable that they have influenced the thinking of a whole generation.
1980 65438+On February 8th, John Lennon walked out of his apartment in Manhattan. As usual, many fans were waiting for him. A young man took out Lennon's latest album and asked him to sign it. Lennon realized the wishes of young people. It never occurred to him that a moment later, he would die at the gun of this young man.
President Nixon
Richard milhous nixon was born on June 9, 2003 in Balinda, California, USA. Irish descent. 1934 obtained a bachelor's degree from whittle University. Later, he obtained a bachelor's degree in law from Duke University, 65438-0937. Worked as a lawyer in whittle, California from 1937 to 1942. /kloc-0 joined the * * * and Party in June, 938. From 1942 to 1946, he served in the navy and was promoted to naval major.
1946, Nixon was elected to the U.S. house of representatives and entered politics. 1950, he was elected to the United States Senate. 1952, as Eisenhower's running mate, he was elected as the vice president of the United States. 1956, re-elected as vice president of the United States. 1959 was narrowly defeated by John F. Kennedy in the presidential election. After losing the election, Nixon worked as a lawyer in Los Angeles and new york.
1968 Nixon returned to politics. In the American election that year, he defeated Democrat Humphrey and independent candidate Wallace and was elected as the 46th (37th) president of the United States. 1972 1 was re-elected as the 47th president. 1in August, 974, he was forced to resign as the president due to the Watergate incident.
13. Watergate incident
Watergate incident refers to1June, 972,1June, 7. The United States and Nixon used their respective campaign teams to spy on the campaign policies of the other Democratic Party, and installed bugs in the Watergate Building of the Democratic Party headquarters, which was later exposed by Washington post reporters bob woodward and Carl Burstein, thus setting off a storm of impeachment of Nixon. This incident led to the first presidential resignation in American history.
14. Apple Computer Company
Personally, I feel that the Apple logo can explain everything ... This fruit business may be too complicated for Forrest Gump.
President Carter
James earl carter, also known as Jimmy Carter, was born in prance, Georgia on 1 June, 9661924+1October1. 194 1 to 1943 studied at Southwest University and Georgia Institute of Technology. He entered the United States Naval Academy in Maryland (Annapolis Naval Academy) in 1943, and received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1947. 1946 to 1953 served in the us navy. After his father 1953 died, he retired to run Carter Farm, Carter Warehouse and other businesses in his hometown and engaged in political activities. He is a deacon of Christian Southern Baptist Church and a Sunday school teacher.
1955- 1962 is the chairman of the school board of Sumter County, Georgia, and 1962- 1966 is the senator of Georgia. During this period, he also served as the general manager of Plain Development Company, the general manager of Sumter County Development Company, the chairman of the Planning and Development Committee of the Midwest of Georgia, and the chairman of the Georgia Crop Improvement Association. Governor of Georgia 1970 rpm 1974. From 65438 to 0974, he served as Chairman of the Election Committee of the Democratic National Committee. 1977 served as the 39th president of the United States. 1980 won the re-election and lost the election. He has been an honorary professor at Emory University in Atlanta since 1982.
16. AIDS
On June 5th, 198 1, when HIV was first discovered, people didn't even know its name, let alone its cause of death. On this day, according to the report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), five homosexuals in Los Angeles died of a rare "pneumonia". In July, a gay weekly named new york People first introduced the disease. The title of the article is "Cancer in Gay Groups". At the end of 1982, the disease was officially named AIDS.